Gor Mahia boss Ambrose Rachier vows to punish adamant players after chaotic Morocco trip

The standoff at Gor Mahia is causing bruising effects on their matches evidenced by their dismal display of football in their CAF match in Morocco where they lost7-1 on aggregate, a thing their boss is not ready to entertain.

Gor Mahia boss Ambrose Rachier has vowed to crack the whip on “indisciplined players” within the squad days after the infamous trip to Berkane, Morocco maintaining that the players claim to bonuses lacks a legal basis.

The fallout comes at a time when the club has been fined sh 1.5m fine by CAF for crowd trouble that marred its matches against Petro Atletico of Angola and Hussein Dey of Algeria at home.

Speaking at a press briefing in Nairobi, Rachier confirmed that all players had been paid their salaries in full, but they still refused to go on training a day before their first leg match with RS Berkane in Nairobi demanding for their allowances.

Gor were tossed out of the CAF Confederation Cup 7-1 on aggregate after losing the first leg match in Nairobi 2-0, before suffering a 5-1 meltdown in Berkane, Morocco, with the first team arriving at the match venue just two hours to kick off.

“Our first team that was to travel to Morocco on Thursday was booked for a KQ flight which developed a mechanical problem and so it didn’t take off as expected and so the team had to travel the following day (Friday),” he said.

“If we (Gor Mahia officials) are guilty or failed in any way it’s because we could not raise the Sh.8m needed for the travel arrangements,” explained.

“On this go slow by our players, we will investigate it and we will punish those players, because allowances have no legal basis,” he added.

Stung by the furore and criticism that greeted the mismanagement of the trip to Berkane, the long serving club boss put a brave face amidst a barrage of questions from reporters noting that the club is considering a number of ways in expanding the club’s cash kitty.

“To move away from these financial challenges the club is considering raising money by having a plan where our registered members will contribute a certain fee (to be decided later) after every month.

“We will also increase the sale of our merchandise but we need to deal with cartels in this field because some produce cheaper jerseys and so we end up not selling the original uniforms,” he said of the viable long term projects which the club has refused to embrace in the last 50 years despite pressure to do so.

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